Last week, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was released! Snow Leopard represents a lot of hard work by a lot of folks at Apple and at seeded third-party developers, and it really shows. Now that it’s shipped, I can actually talk about some of the especially cool things this release has for developers.
Also tagged Apple, Instruments, Mac, Snow Leopard, XcodeVarious pieces of Mac OS X and iPhone documentation have said for quite a while that the “preferred” method is now to use ISO-639-1 (two-letter) or ISO-639-2 (three-letter) language codes codes for localization purposes. Out of the box, Xcode’s project templates still use “English” rather than “en” as their default localization. How can you use […]
Also tagged localization, project model, XcodeIn the past, I’ve talked about ways to easily write unit tests for Cocoa applications, including tests for user interfaces using target-action and tests for interfaces using Cocoa bindings. There are some strategies you can apply to make writing tests for Cocoa code even easier, though. They’re just straightforward object-oriented programming, but sometimes we can […]
Also tagged agile development, Cocoa, Cocoa bindings, human interface design, Objective-C, patterns, test-driven development, unit testing, user interface testing, XcodeAbout a year ago, I wrote about unit testing target-action connections for Cocoa user interfaces. That covers the traditional mechanism by which user interfaces have typically been constructed in Cocoa since the NeXTstep days. However, with the release of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther we’ve had a newer interface technology available — Cocoa bindings — […]
Also tagged agile development, Cocoa, Cocoa bindings, human interface design, Objective-C, patterns, test-driven development, unit testing, user interface testing, XcodeIt’s really great to see that a lot of people are adopting unit testing for their projects and dramatically improving their quality. Test-driven development and agile development methodologies built around it are really taking off. However, a lot of people still feel that their user interface is difficult to test through code, and either requires […]
Also tagged agile development, Cocoa, Cocoa bindings, human interface design, Objective-C, patterns, test-driven development, unit testing, user interface testing, XcodeDavid Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails at 37signals, takes James McGovern — some Java/J2EE author — to task for his über-lame rant against Ruby in the Enterprise in a great post titled Boy, is James McGovern enterprise or what! So by Enterprise, Architect, and Enterprise Architect standards, this gent must be the top of the pop. […]
Also tagged agile development, Cocoa, Core Data, enterprise, Mac, OCUnit, programming, Rails, Ruby, WebObjects, XcodeThe new Core Data framework and Xcode 2 modeling tools in Tiger are an extremely powerful way to develop great end-user applications quickly. You can even easily generate a human interface for your application that will let you work with its data model with little to no code. To generate an interface, create an empty […]
Also tagged Cocoa, Core Data, Xcode